I was reading a linux magazine and always notice that most the writers
talk about they have been using linux for 10years/12 years. Since
linux came out in 91/92? How can somebody be that on the ball, or are
they lying? If they are, they should be scolded. Its kind of like
people saying they have 20 years programming experience and they are
30, just bugs me a little.

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 at 16:59 GMT, bigbinc wrote:
Many people got involved in Linux from the very beginning.

My 26-year-old son has been programming for more than 20 years,
since before he could read.

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"bigbinc" <bigbinc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Why do you think that someone 10 years of age is not capable of programming?
Why do you think that someone was not experimenting with or actually using
Linux from its release?

Why do you let yourself think that because someone has different experiences
from yours, that they are somehow suspect?

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"ynotssor" <"ynotssor"> wrote in message news:<3f32f122_5@corp.newsgroups.com>...

I have been programming since about 10, TRS-80, but I wont pretend
that it is considered programming. It is an insult to real
programmers who write/design/test software. I hope programmers would
feel insulted that their work compares to that of a 10 year old.

bigbinc <bigbinc@hotmail.com> wrote:
When I started using Linux, I was using a 0.9x kernel on a 386sx16
machine with a 40M HD and 4M of RAM.

I can't tell you what year that was, but it has been a long time ago,
putting it close to the times they claim.


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In article <rrPYa.64720$cF.21500@rwcrnsc53>, <jbuchana@buchanan1.net> wrote:
-bigbinc <bigbinc@hotmail.com> wrote:
-> I was reading a linux magazine and always notice that most the writers
-> talk about they have been using linux for 10years/12 years. Since
-> linux came out in 91/92? How can somebody be that on the ball, or are
-> they lying? If they are, they should be scolded. Its kind of like
-> people saying they have 20 years programming experience and they are
-> 30, just bugs me a little.
-
-When I started using Linux, I was using a 0.9x kernel on a 386sx16
-machine with a 40M HD and 4M of RAM.
-
-I can't tell you what year that was, but it has been a long time ago,
-putting it close to the times they claim.

I've been using Linux since before Slackware and Redhat came out. Slack just
had it's 10th birthday party. Again you can do the math.

I started with the SoftLanding Systems (SLS) distribution on a 386-40 with a
110 MB HD and 8 MB of ram. I got really interested when I found out that X
could be run on a Hercules card ($20 for a clone) to a monochrome monitor
(which I had connected to an original PC mono/printer card), I became really
interested.

BAJ

Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com> wrote in message news:<ah07jv4b5c30ioqimvt7m4q4en67cr4gld@4ax.com>. ..
This just proves my point

linux-0.01.tar:
linux\kernel\string.h:
/*
* set, making the functions fast and clean. String instructions have
been
* used through-out, making for "slightly" unclear code :-)
*
* (C) 1991 Linus Torvalds
*/

So lets just say it 'came out' in 1991, this is my definition.

That is the 'truth' as how you see it. You either did or you didnt
use linux, and since the date stamp on this linux source is 8/8/1991,
you either used it before or after that date. And since linux-1.0
'probably' was available for download after 1991.

Note: I said 'just bugs me a little'.

The truth usually comes out regardless of whether that person knows
something or not, if it is molecular biology or whether you know what
'K & R' means.

"j" == jbuchana@buchanan1.net <jbuchana@buchanan1.net>:
j> When I started using Linux, I was using a 0.9x kernel on a 386sx16
j> machine with a 40M HD and 4M of RAM.
j>
j> I can't tell you what year that was, but it has been a long time ago,

1992 or 1993.

Roger Blake <rogblake10@iname10.com> wrote:
I believe we were using archie and gopher back then!

:-). I certainly was using the internet in 1983-4, when arpanet was
linking up with janet in the UK. Before that communications across the
nets were possible, but at times required tapes and carrier pigeons ..
but email had been working worldwide for donkeys years before that, and
usenet wasn't new then either. We had uucp to move the spools across the
landlines!

We already had the gnu compilers years before that, for dos too.

Peter

JMBCV <nobody@mail.jmbcv.net> wrote:
Sounds reasonable.

That puts it right in the range that the OP was concerned about.

I can certainly remember how thrilled I was to be running Unix at
home! I was using HP/UX and SunOS at work (Now it's HP/UX, Solaris,
and Linux), and it was a relief to be able to run a real OS at home as
well!


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But Uncle Bill invented everything internet ! ( thats a joke everyone,
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jbuchana@buchanan1.net writes:

I installed SLS/linux on a 486 at home, and displace xterm from school
to home using a program called term/X something. No SLIP or PPP at
school yet. Professor is impressed.

/ming